Presents background, arguments, and resources on over one hundred debate topics in diverse areas.

Provides background, arguments and resources on 125 debate topics in areas as diverse science and technology, environment, politics, religion, sports, culture and education. All topics have been updated and 26 new topics added for the fourth edition.

Key title in Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Debate Series, a classic work once again available. Explores a variety of perspectives and situations in which teachers and learners can find arguments. The book is dedicated to Wayne Brockriede (1922-1985) whose career focused on teaching and learning about argument. The essays demonstrate the important role that reasoning plays in personal, social, philosophical and technical communities. The essays that are not published elsewhere also emphasize the great variety of unique places where students can search for and find arguments.

Product Description: This book features a completely new section on argumentation for debaters, promoting a more complete examination of the process of argument construction, a new classification of debate propositions, and a thorough discussion of constructing arguments for and against each of the kinds of debate propositions...read more